Warm Down Procedure - Smoking or Non-Smoking

[AndyA6]

OK, here's my take FWIW. If you run your car hard, high rpm, high loads, so everything is really really hot it is highly adviseable to drive for a few minutes at approx. 2,500/3,000 rpm with little as possible load to let things cool down.

Back in Germany after hours of full throttle/high speed runs we always drove the last 2 miles to the gas station at a slower speed to get things to normal. Never a problem!

Idle at a standstill does nothing or makes things worse, air movement is needed.

[Overdrive]

Originally Posted by AndyA6

OK, here's my take FWIW. If you run your car hard, high rpm, high loads, so everything is really really hot it is highly adviseable to drive for a few minutes at approx. 2,500/3,000 rpm with little as possible load to let things cool down.

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Idle at a standstill does nothing or makes things worse, air movement is needed.

I agree with you, Andy. That's certainly much easier to accomplish on a track than in a commuter lot, though. If I could do those same things I do while in motion instead of parked, I would for the very reasons you state. Although, if the fans for the radiators and the engine bay were not up to the task of cooling the car at a standstill, even if it's only accomplishing the bare minimum, I imagine they wouldn't be there in the first place. It's better than nothing, right?